Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 9 to 15, 2021

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 9 to 15, 2021)
Prepared with commentary by Mcrsftdog, SSSB, Igordebraga

On May 2020, Elon Musk topped our Report for welcoming a son with a weird name to the world. One year later, here's the billionaire again at #1! And sadly the other familiar big subject of the week is that of Middle Eastern conflicts.


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! Rank ! Article ! Class ! Views ! Image ! Notes/about
 * 1
 * Elon Musk
 * 2,023,222
 * Elon Musk unveiling Neuralink.jpg
 * Billionaire Memeguy hosted Saturday Night Live on May 8. His fans thought his was the best episode ever; his detractors thought it was as unfunny as anything modern SNL puts out. Musk also managed to crash two cryptocurrencies in one week—doge- crashing after a (presumably failed) plug on SNL, and bit- crashing after Tesla announced it would no longer be accepted as payment.
 * 2
 * State of Palestine
 * 1,543,993
 * rowspan=6|Flag of Palestine.svgFlag of Israel.svg
 * rowspan=6| In the past week, protests over the eviction of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, has escalated into countless missile strikes on the Gaza Strip. Some say that civilian deaths are an inevitable result of political power - and that's paraphrasing Bari Weiss defending Israel.
 * 3
 * Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * 1,473,599
 * 4
 * Israel
 * 1,445,058
 * 5
 * Hamas
 * 1,206,073
 * 6
 * Iron Dome
 * 1,043,060
 * 7
 * Gaza Strip
 * 1,003,236
 * 8
 * Jupiter's Legacy (TV series)
 * 983,196
 * Josh Duhamel SXSW 2017 (cropped).jpg
 * What if a superhero was morally grey? What if they, get this, killed people? That'd be crazy. Jupiter's Legacy, the first piece of media to explore this concept, premiered on Netflix on May 7.
 * 9
 * Deaths in 2021
 * 937,721
 * Death detail from Cartoon from Puck LACMA 54.70.29.23 (cropped).jpg
 * Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead
 * 10
 * Radhe (2021 film)
 * 924,247
 * Salman Khan at Renault Star Guild Awards.jpg
 * India has sadly been going through a huge spike in cases of the goddamned pandemic, so the latest Bollywood blockbuster had to be released digitally (though foreign markets got it in theaters).
 * 11
 * Canelo Álvarez
 * 894,865
 * Saúl Álvarez.png
 * At a May 8 match, Álvarez took the World Boxing Organization championship belt from Billy Joe Saunders.
 * 12
 * Liz Cheney
 * 823,887
 * Liz Cheney 15800286.jpg
 * Cheney, sole Representative for Wyoming, was ousted from House Republican leadership this week; such are the consequences of not falling lock-step with a failed President's conspiracy theory. If you're a liberal and want to glorify Liz, you should probably do some reading on her father Dick—one of the main architects of the Iraq War.
 * 13
 * 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
 * 765,162
 * Operation Guardian of the Walls, May 2021. XXVII. L.jpg
 * One sad certainty about the Middle East is that whenever it seems like things calmed down, there will always emerge something to break the peace.
 * 14
 * Resident Evil Village
 * 759,949
 * Cosplay of Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil Village) • 2.jpg
 * The internet has an almost Freudian fascination with Lady Dimitrescu, a giant woman. If there's anything else to this game, I haven't seen it.
 * 15
 * Al-Aqsa Mosque
 * 727,631
 * Jerusalem-2013-Temple Mount-Al-Aqsa Mosque (NE exposure).jpg
 * It was the storming of the third holiest site in Islam, on the final Friday prayers of Ramadan, that prompted the ongoing crisis (#13) to new heights. When the site was set alight later in the week, Jewish Israelis were heard to be encouraging the fire, chanting what Yair Wallach called 'genocidal songs of vengeance'. Do they not realise that this adds fuel to the anti-semitism fire?
 * 16
 * David Berkowitz
 * 657,162
 * The "Son of Sam" murderer is the subject of the Netflix docuseries Sons of Sam.
 * 17
 * Dogecoin
 * 642,509
 * دوژکوین.jpg
 * DOGE has been shooting for the moon for the past year. While it seemed like it was about to hit a conversion rate of 1 DOGE = 1 USD, it crashed while Elon (#1) was hosting SNL. Despite (or because of) the volatility, there are still people investing their real money for fake meme money. Musk also decided to fund a SpaceX mission with it!
 * 18
 * Tawny Kitaen
 * 617,451
 * Tawny_Kitaen_1984_publicity_still.jpg
 * Kitaen, probably best known for starring in four Whitesnake music videos, passed away on May 7. She was 59.
 * 19
 * Mother's Day
 * 611,854
 * "Happy Mother's Day" Cookie Cake (7200315502).jpg
 * rowspan=2|Two holidays this past week: the former commemorating your mother, and the latter commemorating the end of Ramadan.
 * 20
 * Eid al-Fitr
 * 602,019
 * Eid al-Fitr Ottoman Greeting card.jpg
 * 21
 * Asperger syndrome
 * 600,906
 * Neurodivergent Egoist Anarchist Star.svg
 * In Musk's opening monologue on SNL, he said that he was the first person with Asperger's to host the show. While this isn't necessarily true—Dan Aykroyd having hosted in 2003—it prompted a conversation in the news media.
 * 22
 * Halston
 * 584,843
 * American Pastoral PC 03 (29664628072).jpg
 * A Netflix miniseries, with Ewan McGregor portraying the mononymous fashion designer, premiered on Friday.
 * 23
 * Invincible (TV series)
 * 548,435
 * C2E2_2013_-_Invincible_(8701565565).jpg
 * What if a superhero was morally grey? What if they, get this, killed people? That'd be crazy. Invincible, the first piece of media to explore this concept, finished its first season on Amazon Prime on April 29.
 * 24
 * Mare of Easttown
 * 511,992
 * Mountain Between Us 05 (37234033085) (cropped).jpg
 * HBO continues to air this show about Kate Winslet as detective Mare, who returns to Easttown Township to investigate a murder, and that in a reverse of television's usual viewership patterns actually increases its audience every week, having broken a million viewers with its fourth episode.
 * 25
 * Spiral (2021 film)
 * 504,940
 * Billy the Puppet (Jigsaw).jpg
 * In true horror movie tradition, the Saw movies just won't die. And the ninth (!) installment brought in some big actors (Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson) to tell the story of someone copying the style of the Jigsaw Killer.
 * }
 * Tawny_Kitaen_1984_publicity_still.jpg
 * Kitaen, probably best known for starring in four Whitesnake music videos, passed away on May 7. She was 59.
 * 19
 * Mother's Day
 * 611,854
 * "Happy Mother's Day" Cookie Cake (7200315502).jpg
 * rowspan=2|Two holidays this past week: the former commemorating your mother, and the latter commemorating the end of Ramadan.
 * 20
 * Eid al-Fitr
 * 602,019
 * Eid al-Fitr Ottoman Greeting card.jpg
 * 21
 * Asperger syndrome
 * 600,906
 * Neurodivergent Egoist Anarchist Star.svg
 * In Musk's opening monologue on SNL, he said that he was the first person with Asperger's to host the show. While this isn't necessarily true—Dan Aykroyd having hosted in 2003—it prompted a conversation in the news media.
 * 22
 * Halston
 * 584,843
 * American Pastoral PC 03 (29664628072).jpg
 * A Netflix miniseries, with Ewan McGregor portraying the mononymous fashion designer, premiered on Friday.
 * 23
 * Invincible (TV series)
 * 548,435
 * C2E2_2013_-_Invincible_(8701565565).jpg
 * What if a superhero was morally grey? What if they, get this, killed people? That'd be crazy. Invincible, the first piece of media to explore this concept, finished its first season on Amazon Prime on April 29.
 * 24
 * Mare of Easttown
 * 511,992
 * Mountain Between Us 05 (37234033085) (cropped).jpg
 * HBO continues to air this show about Kate Winslet as detective Mare, who returns to Easttown Township to investigate a murder, and that in a reverse of television's usual viewership patterns actually increases its audience every week, having broken a million viewers with its fourth episode.
 * 25
 * Spiral (2021 film)
 * 504,940
 * Billy the Puppet (Jigsaw).jpg
 * In true horror movie tradition, the Saw movies just won't die. And the ninth (!) installment brought in some big actors (Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson) to tell the story of someone copying the style of the Jigsaw Killer.
 * }
 * 24
 * Mare of Easttown
 * 511,992
 * Mountain Between Us 05 (37234033085) (cropped).jpg
 * HBO continues to air this show about Kate Winslet as detective Mare, who returns to Easttown Township to investigate a murder, and that in a reverse of television's usual viewership patterns actually increases its audience every week, having broken a million viewers with its fourth episode.
 * 25
 * Spiral (2021 film)
 * 504,940
 * Billy the Puppet (Jigsaw).jpg
 * In true horror movie tradition, the Saw movies just won't die. And the ninth (!) installment brought in some big actors (Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson) to tell the story of someone copying the style of the Jigsaw Killer.
 * }
 * Billy the Puppet (Jigsaw).jpg
 * In true horror movie tradition, the Saw movies just won't die. And the ninth (!) installment brought in some big actors (Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson) to tell the story of someone copying the style of the Jigsaw Killer.
 * }



Exclusions

 * This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish.